Olive Oil Sommelier® Concours 2018

The “Olive Oil Sommelier ®” is a qualified specialist of olive oil with enough knowledge of its history, cultivars(varieties), growing, milling and food pairing as well as enough technical capability of the sensory evaluation. The Olive Oil Sommelier Association of Japan has been opened Olive Oil Sommelier School since 2009, and there are over 1600 Junior Sommelier graduates, 550 Olive Oil Sommelier advanced course graduates and 45 Master Sommelier graduates. (i.e. “Olive Oil Sommelier ®” is a registered trademark/service mark as the Japanese government authorized its exclusive rights to the Olive Oil Sommelier Association of JAPAN (OSAJ). No one can use this term in Japan without prior written consent by the OSAJ.)

For those Olive Oil Sommelier, OLIVE JAPAN 2018 decided to organize the 5th “Sommelier Concours” to compete their technical capability of the sensory analysis and provides awards to the best Olive Oil Sommelier in Japan.

The followings are the Concours detail:

The 5th Olive Oil Sommelier® Concours of OLIVE JAPAN 2018

Concours Competition

To do the sensory analysis with several registered olive oil in OLIVE JAPAN 2018 with Competition judges.

Those who have any qualification for the Sensory Analysis, such as, the IOC authorized panelist, Italian Sommelier dell Olio members (AISO), graduates with the course offered by O.N.A.O.O and UC Davis.

Winner of the Concours will be presented their awards by the Olive Ambassador at the main stage on the veneu on June 9th, 2018.

The Entry registration will start mid February 2018 through the website of the Olive Oil Sommelier Association of Japan.
For more detail, please ask to the Olive Oil Sommelier Association of Japan via email (info@oliveoil.or.jp).

OLIVE JAPAN pleased to announce the WINNERS of 2017 Concours as follows: